Originally Posted by SkidMark

I just saw an ad for URGE today on MTV so I thought I would give it a test drive. I have to say honestly hands down URGE is the best music subscription program I’ve seen to date (I’ve used just about all of them: Rhapsody, Napster, Virgin Digital, Yahoo! Music). The only downfall is yes, it does require WMP11 (this can be a non-issue though with the above tutorial). The coolest feature is their search which displays results in real time (narrows down the list as you type in the search box) which looks like it might be coded in AJAX. I believe they are still working out some bugs, but I haven’t noticed anything yet personally (fast download speeds, fast searching, etc.). At $99/yr it is slightly higher than Yahoo! Music but after a couple hours with URGE I decided to make the switch and cancel both my Napster and Yahoo! Music subscriptions. Microsoft is also backing MTV/VH1/CMT (Viacom) and trying to make this the rival to iTunes. If any company could do so, I think Microsoft and Viacom are defiantly a good fit.

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